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Size: D10.2cm

Signed and dated: Kangxi Period，Qing Dynasty

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Final Price: RMB 3,800,000

Kangxi Six-Character Mark
This apple jar is in compressed globular form with shallow recession encircling the short neck to look like an apple. The jar is covered overall in a soft pale blue‘clair-de-lune’glaze，and the base is glazed white with six-character Kangxi reign mark in blue-and-white. The soft，gentle hue of clair-de-lune is one of the most treasured Qing glazes and was reserved exclusively for Imperial porcelains.
Similar piece can be found in the Shanghai Museum，published in Kangxi Porcelain Ware from the Shanghai Museum Collection，Hong Kong，1998，pl. 216.
Provenance
Sotheby’s Hong Kong，November.1.1999，lot 339
The Ten-Views Lingbi Rock Retreat Collection，no.EK51